UK Company Specific, AutoCAD Essentials

This 3-day AutoCAD Essentials course is designed for new AutoCAD® / AutoCAD LT® software users who require comprehensive training. The course incorporates the features, commands, and techniques for creating, editing, and printing drawings with AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT.

COURSE OUTLINE 6 DAYS Basic Drafting Tools • Use different coordinate systems in CAD • Use object snaps to control accuracy • Save time with running osnaps • Create and edit 2D geometry • Create lines, circles, and arcs in AutoCAD • Erase, move, copy, scale, and rotate objects • Use grips for better editing Tips and Tricks • Use object selection and visibility to speed up your designs • Open multiple drawings in the same session • Best methods for using the Windows copy command with AutoCAD • Match properties across drawings • Quickly and easily modify drawings using grips • Change layer states by freezing, locking and unlocking • Isolate, filter and merge layers, use Layer Walk Improved Accuracy • Understand absolute and relative coordinates for coordinate entry • Locate a new point based on existing object snap points • Understand temporary tracking • Create construction lines to help you construct your drawing • Use points and point groups for drawing reference markers Better 2D Sketching • Set geometric relationships between objects, i.e., a line remains horizontal or two circles remain concentric • Set dimensional relationships between objects by specifying distances, radii, or angles between objects • Use formulas in your constraints to capture your design intent Reuse Your Drawing Content to Save Time • Work with blocks and block settings • Top tips for selecting objects and saving them as a separate file • Reduce drawing file size with effective use of the purge command • Tool Palettes – the easiest way to insert blocks • Apply properties to your tool palette to control the behavior of blocks, hatching, and other reusable content • Attach data to your blocks Improve Drawing Consistency • Use drawing templates for the settings that you want to include as the foundation for new drawings • Use AutoCAD’s standards tools to work quickly and efficiently • Top tips for a drawing layering scheme, create new layers • Work with lineweights and linetypes • Simplify your day-to-day work by creating layouts that match your printers and paper sizes Better Display Control • Make complex drawings easier to navigate with named views • Create new viewports from a named view • Use model space viewports to display multiple close-up views • Change a layer’s properties in a viewport without the change being made in other viewports, freeze a layer in a viewport • Add annotation scale to objects enabling them to display in viewports at different scales Annotation Styles • Exert better control over annotation with text and dimension styles External Reference Tips • Use external references to enable members of a design team to share common source files and still have the most current information • Attach, modify, clip, and bind xrefs – understand the options • Attachments vs. overlays, control xref layers Introduction to Fields and Tables • Understand how to create a text object that automatically updates • Understand how to display information in a table in your drawing Wessex Water CAD Drafting Best Practices Throughout this course, you will learn about what good CAD drafting means to Wessex Water. • Understand Wessex Water CAD standards and its CAD Drawing Manual and produce drawings in line with these standards • Understand and use the Wessex Water AutoCAD template • Understand and use Wessex Water layer preferences • Review examples of CAD drawings where poor CAD drawing principles were used, and understand how to avoid these error